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(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1. W. T. GOODSON.

PLANT-ER.

PaJtenteNov. 1, 1892.

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W. T. GOODSON.

' PLANTER.

Patented Nov. 1, 1892.

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WILLIAM T. GOODSON, OF HOMER, LOUISIANA, ASSIGNOB OF ONE-HALF TO BLUFORD F. ALLEN, OF SAME PLACE.

PLANTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 485,188, dated November 1, 1892.

Application filed July 6. 1892- Serial No. 439.126. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: curved brace 8 embraces the beam in front l;3e it known that I, WILLIAM T. GOODSON, of the standard, is bolted at 9 to it, and at its a citizen of the United States, residing at Holower end is bolted at 10 between the bifurmer, in the parish of Claiborne and State cations of the standard. A furrow-opening 5 of Louisiana, have invented a new and useshovel 11 is located at the front of the standful Planter, of which the following is a speciard, and by means of a heel-bolt12, passed befication. tween the bifurcations of the standard and My invention relates to improvements in provided with a nut, 13, said shovel is mainplanters, and to that particular class thereof tained at a desired adjustment upon the 1o employingafront furrow-opening shovel, rear standard, and is thus designed to be set for covering-shovels, and anintermediate hopper. running deep or shallow. Near their rear The objects of my invention are to provide ends the side bars orbeams are connected by a planter of this class which shall be of'cheap a transverse bar 14, whose extremities are and simple construction in that I obviate all bolted to the side bars, as indicated at 15. 15 necessity for the use of gears, crank-wheels, This transverse bar combines with the side sprocket-chains, 85c. bars and the front transverse portion of the With these and other objects in view the frame to form a rectangular open frame, and invention consists in certain novel features in the same is seated and adapted to reciprohereinafter specified, and particularized in cate vertically aseed-hopper 16. In thepres- 7o 20 the claims. ent instance this seed-hopper is provided at Referring to the drawings, Figure l is a peropposite sides with pairs of vertical keepers spective view of a planter constructed in ac- 17, offset between their ends from the wallsof cordance withmy invention. Fig.2is a verthe hopper, and they receive the said side tical longitudinal section thereof. Fig. 3 is a beams or bars of the frame, whereby thehop- 25 plan view of the frame. Fig. 4 is a transper is free to move vertically within the frame. verse section of a modified arrangement of The bottom of the hopper is provided with a hopper. Fig. 5 is a longitudinal section of slot 18, extending throughout its length, and the same. Fig. 6 is a detail in perspective of the bottom sections or halves are at their centhe frame converted to a cultivator. ters bent semicircular at 20. A shaft 21 is 0 Like numerals of reference indicate like journaled in the opposite side walls of the parts in all the figures of the drawings. hopper concentric with the curved bottom,

In constructingtheframel employa metal and upon this shaft a ground-wheel 22 is bar of proper length, bending the same at its mounted and rotates therewith. The groundcenter and upon itself a short distance, so wheel has its oppositefaces provided withan- 5 that the combined terminals constitute a nular series of agitator-pins 23, which move beam 1, at whose front end the eye 2 for the in a circle over the curved bottom of the hopreception of the clevis is formed by the aforeper. said bend. After the terminals have been con- The operation is as follows: Seed being tinued together for some distance, sufficient placed in the hopper, the wheel traveling 0 40 to form the beam, they are bent outward at over the ground rises and falls with the hopright angles to the beam and in opposite diper in accordance with the undulations of rections, and thence directly rearward, formthe ground. In this manner the hopper is ing side beams or bars 3, whose extremities supported at a proper distance from the depend orare curved downward to form plowground at all times. The furrow-opening 5 5 standards 4. These extremities may be bent shovel performs its usual function,after which to form the covering-shovels 5, or may be prothe seed passing from the hopper falls into the vided with such shovels, as in the presentinfurrow through the slot in the hopper, and stance. A standard 6, bifurcated as shown, the covering-shovels following thereafter rehas its bifurcations at their upper ends emturn the dirt to the furrow, thus completing I00 50 bracing the beam at the rear end of the latthe planting of the seed.

ter, and by bolts 7 is secured in position. A From the foregoing description, in connec- V as willv be obvious.

tion with the accompanying drawings, it will be seen that my planter is very simple in construction, having a positive feed without the employment of sprocketchains, numerous gear-wheels, &c., and that the frame, with the exception of the rear cross-bar, is formed of an integral or single piece of metal.

In Figs. 4 and 5 I have illustrated a slight modification of the invention. In these figures the beams 3 embrace the hopper 24, which is provided at its sides near its lower end with transversely-opposite bearings in which take the hearing ends 25 of a transverse axle 26. Ground-wheels 27 are mounted on the ends of the axle outside of thehopper, and seed-cavities 28, arranged at diametrically-opposite sides of the axle, are located be tween the walls of the hopper. The axle in this instance, between its'bearing ends, is cy-' lindrical and enlarged. A partition 29 is longitudinally arranged within the hopper, dividing the'same into two compartmentsand with each compartment one of theseed-pockets is adapted to communicate. The hopper is suspended in the framework by the metal straps 17, as in the former instance, and has all the advantages of the former construction, and in addition is designed to plant alter-i nately corn and peas or any other two varie-' ties of seed. A block 30, may be located in front of the axle and carryaseriesof brushes 31, which act as a cut-off for the seed.

In Fig. 6 I have illustrated the framework WIth the hopper removed, which removal is readily accomplished in any simple manner,

furrow-opening shovel and its standardhave' "been removed,and at the frontcorners of the ent of the planting mechanism. If desired, i an additional furrow-opener maybe also employed, though such is not necessary.

For the accommodation of the shovels and standards 32 bolt-holes 33 are formed inthe side bars or beams 3, and, as will be obvious, the. Standards and shovels-.32 maybe readily removedwhen it is desired to plant.

As herein shown, the

Having described my invention, what I claim '.-is

1. In a planter, the combination, with the rectangular frame provided at its front end with a beam, a standard depending from the beam and carrying a furrow-opening shovel, and a-pair of standards connected to the rear corners of the frame and carrying furrow-closing shovels, of a hopper loosely fitting in the frame and having a slotted bottom, a shaft journaled in the walls of the hopper, and a wheel provided with agitating-pins, mounted on the shaft and extending through the slot in the bottom, substantially as specified.

2. In a planter, the frame formed integral and consisting of the opposite terminals combined to form the beam, in rear of which they .are diverged and rearwardly disposed to form side bars, bent at their rear ends to form adapted for vertical movement therein, opposite pairs of vertical straps or keepers connected to the sides of the hopper and loosely embracing the said side bars, said hopper having its bottom providedwith a slot, the axleor shaft in bearings above the slot, the

.wheel mounted on the axle and having radiating pins projecting from its faces, and themetalkeepers connected to the-walls of the hopper and embracing the side bars of the frame, substantially as specified.

3. The combination, with the rectangular frame terminating at its rear end in permanent shovel-standards. and adaptedto receive and loosely support a hopper, of bolt-openings located at the front corners of the frame and adapted .to removably receive additional shovel-standards, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I-claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signaturein the presence of two witnesses.

WVILLIAM T. GOODSON.

Witnesses: V

W. H. MAXEY, J r., O. T. MQRELAND. 

